I love magic. You (may) love magic. But how does it work? We know Abyss Sorceries and Oolacile Sorceries are different from Vinhelm sorceries. Abyss sorceries use humans/ humanity. Lets take the description of the Pursuers:

"Sorcery of Manus, Father of the Abyss. Grant a fleeting will to the Dark of humanity, and volley the result.The will feels envy, or perhaps love, and despite the inevitable trite and tragic ending, the will sees no alternative, and is driven madly towards its target.". The sorcery probably uses human souls as a volley to hit the enemy.

Parts of this will be speculation, but onto Vinhelm Sorceries. I think their Soul Magic uses Dragon Souls. Three rings, along with the name of the school itself has Dragon in it. I'm especially interested in the Bellowing Dragoncrest Ring.

"A special ring granted to only the most accomplished sorcerers at Vinheim Dragon School.The ring is engraved with an everlasting dragon, and boosts the strength of sorceries."

Why would it be engraved with the Everlasting Dragon? Do they have some sort of sorcery potential? But that won't work, since Seath developed Sorcery. So thats why I think the school uses Dragon Souls.

Finally, onto Oolacile sorceries. Dusk describes her sorceries as "gentle". I don't really have much else with it. Sorry.

ThatPerson wrote:One of Dusk's dialogue says her sorceries "Negates all but oneself". I have no idea what that means. Maybe it means literally that it doesnt affect anyone but yourself, yeah, thats what Im thinking.

Yeh, that would make sense. Can't really put it into words but I totally know what you're getting at.

Alright, this is going to possibly be a major spoiler. So, spoiler text.

It has to deal with the three forms of sorcery, and oolacile.

Spoiler:

As you had said, Dark Sorcery uses the soul of humanity, or possibly the shattered remnants of the Dark Soul. Soul Sorcery most likely uses Dragon Souls, as the whole school based around its power originates around dragons. So where does that leave oolacile?

Dusk Explains it all. Oolacile sorcery "Negates All but Ones Self". Your soul, yours alone, is the power source for Oolacile. Now, the theme behind the new content is that Oolacile brought the abyss upon itself. Per guessing that maybe Oolacile is the first of their kind to create sorcery based on the users soul, this power is strong, and possibly limitless. Oolacile sorcery is the exact opposite of Dark Sorcery, and as such, could fight the abyss. However, the abyss is everywhere, it knows all, and it will fight to keep its future dominance. Oolacile may not have known what power they created, and may not of even known what good it could be used for, and never will, because Manus removed them, and destroyed the greatest of the four knights.

So to compare, using ones soul that is still whole, you could conjure magic. Using the souls of humans long past, you can conjure magic. Using the souls of ancients, you can conjure magic. I can only imagine the intense power the Lord Souls held.

ViralEnsign_ wrote:Personally I think all mages are abominations...... TEMPLARS FOR THE WIN!

*You hear 3 bolts fire in rapid succession and a shadowy figure leaves the room. Viral returns to the last bonfire rested at *

Also i agree with most of what has been said. the witches of I invented pyromancy from their lord soul, the miricles of the gods draw on the power of gwyns lord soul and soul sorcery comes from the power of dragon souls, oolicile from the users soul and dark sorcery from the dark soul. It makes sense. SORCERERS ARE THE BEST.

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If you take a close look at the Pyromances avaible, You will see that they're very advanced in many ways compared to sorceries and/or miracles. There is Pyromancers to boost attack, boost defense, boost fire resistance, corrode enemies equipment and gosh, there is even a mind-control pyromancer.

Its true sorceries lack the variety of pyromancys and i actually like both. I always thought it likly that there were to be some more healing sorceries from New Londo (if faith can get it why cant sorcerers) but it never made it in to the game. Speaking of which is it just me or does New Londo seem to be lacking some background lore in game? I know it had a robust culture, was known for its unique healing sorceries and That it had 3 great healers who became sealers after locking away the kings (who were corrupted by the abyss). The 3 healers are also all accounted for but not a lot is known about them in great depth. I know we console players don't even have the DLC yet but already i'm hoping for more DLC.

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Yeah,this is why I think magic were created by HUMANS!The origin is probably in Oolacile where they drew their inner soul to use magic and then human started to use different souls,external souls to draw power from. Hence the dragon crest,the soul magic probably came from the power of dead Dragon.

_________________PSN ID: vatar5Will you accept your darkened humanity or be toyed by the Gods?I chose the illusion of freedom.